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Post 1 made on Saturday May 1, 2004 at 03:59
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Some of you might of remembered that I told you I was running win 98 on a pc with 192 mb of ram and a speed of 250mhz cpu. Front bus is 100Mhz at the max just to add that in.

Well since then I have up graded quite a bit with the computer that I have. I've upgraded to an amd k-6 processor running at 550 Mhz. I also added more memory, which is not at the max right now. It is currently at 320. Two 128 and one 64.

My serious question is, would it be worth while for me to get XP on this computer. As I believe that the win 98 is just so corrupt it's not fun any more. If so, where is the best "legal" place to get one for a cheap price?

Thanks Rob
Post 2 made on Saturday May 1, 2004 at 11:37
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On 05/01/04 03:59, King of typos said...

My serious question is, would it be worth while
for me to get XP on this computer.

Thanks Rob

IF by "get XP on this computer." you mean...

Place the CPU under your back tire and run it over... I would say yes. Definitely. Go for it.

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Actually, I never had good luck with any computer that I tried to upgrade to XP.

I even tried to go from XP home to XP pro on one and it was miserable.

XP on a new computer has been a wonderful thing; nonetheless, upgrades are a great way to screw it up.

IMOHO

Good luck to ya.. And delete those old programs already.

Oh yeah.. Never sweep your hard drive. AAgghhh
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Post 3 made on Saturday May 1, 2004 at 12:42
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XP actually runs quite a bit smoother and with somewhat less cpu overhead than 2k. It won't run as quickly as 98, but it will certainly be a much better OS than 98. So IMO the performance hit would be worth it.

Also, as the poster above mentioned, Microsoft's upgrade procedure is marginal at best... I would highly recommend just backing up your important files (or better yet make an image if you have the means) and wiping the drive clean. Put XP Pro on it fresh and you'll be much happier. The only other piece of advice I can give is don't use Internet Explorer! :)
OP | Post 4 made on Saturday May 1, 2004 at 13:07
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Ok there is one thing that I forgot to mention. I do have two hard drives on this computer. When I received the computer. The 4 Gig was the master one, and the 2.3 was the slave. I was getting tired of how slow the 4 gig was a couple of weeks ago. So I swapped them around and reformatted the 2.3 with the cd that the computer came with.


Oh yeah.. Never sweep your hard drive. AAgghhh

What do you mean by "sweep"? Like as in defragmentation?

Someone told me that XP runs faster which is one of the main thoughts of me upgrading to it. But with what is going on with my system, I am more worried about how stable it is compared to mine right now.

Here's another question. If there so happened to be something wrong with one or both of my HD right now, would something tell me? Other than the scan disk that comes with win 98? Scan disk told me that there was nothing wrong with them. This is after I did a complete erase on both of them. Different times of course, and I swapped my files between each other.

Rob

Post 5 made on Saturday May 1, 2004 at 14:30
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Wow! MichaelD is being an AWFULLY GOOD SPORT for answering your question so well and in a detailed fashion after he got played with so much in another thread! And without any jokes thrown in as retribution.

K o' T, you are TOO funny!

MichaeldD, you da' man!

Greg :-)
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Post 6 made on Sunday May 2, 2004 at 02:01
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Talking of computer mod's, a word of warning. Eeper's now got broadband; he can screw things up 10 times quicker than he could before.
OP | Post 7 made on Sunday May 2, 2004 at 02:16
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What are you, he's sidekick????? he he
Post 8 made on Sunday May 2, 2004 at 02:35
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No I'm just *&^%@#~ jealous. I've been trying to get broadband for ages, but apparently my telephone line still isn't good enough. I'm beginning to think it's all a conspiracy.
OP | Post 9 made on Sunday May 2, 2004 at 03:10
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Your phone line isn't good enough?????? How about this one. Try moving to Quakertown, PA and living there......



Oh did I mention that you have to change all of your phones to pulse dialing???? Yes that's right their telephone system is so freaken old that tone dialing does not work at all. As a matter of fact it was only 15 years ago that they had 3 party phones. I would go down to see my grand parents and the phone would ring. But they would say to call back so that the neighbor can pick up the phone. They were about 200 feet away too. So it wasn't like we went over there to tell them that they would get a phone call each time.

Rob
OP | Post 10 made on Sunday May 2, 2004 at 04:40
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I forgot to say something about the house that I am living in right now. I've lived in it from the age of 8 to the age of 18 when my parents and I moved out, then we just moved back in last summer. My parents kept the phone number that they had for the past 20 plus years turned on at this address while a tenat lived here. But it didn't come inside the house, It stayed at the service box on the outside of the house. But anywways, when I moved back in I had to call the phone company to come out to get the dial tone turned on. Even though the tentants had a dail tone for their own line. That took about 2 to 3 days. Not sure if they came out or not. I have a cordless phone from V tech that would let me know if someone else is on the same phone line or not. Wheather it was another hand set because it was more than one handset system. Or either a totally different phone. Here's the problem, each time that I would pick up the phone from someone calling, or for me to call out. I would get the four beeps and a sign that someone else is on the phone. Which annoyed the heck out of me. I called the phone company and told them to come out and look at the lines. Each time that they came out I was not there. This was about 3 to 4 times until we fianly met up. He did nothing, all he did was to ask me what was going on and when he found out it was an "annoying" thing he just let it be and said that there was nothing for him to do. So he left. A month or two after I moved in, my parents moved in. So I brought my phone line that they were using at my old place over here. OH NO, that one didn't work as well. So I had to call the company again, and it took them nearly a month to fix it, and about 4 to 5 holes by the street in front of my house and one by the service pole for the street later to fix it. This house is wired to have 6 to 8 different lines, which was alot for a house that is this old and under ground wiring. 25 years if you are wondering, same age as me. After that they fixed my line so that I can have a phone, the vtech cordless phone would work perfectly, on both lines. I just wish that I had a faster computer at the time so that I could talk them into dsl for free for a year or something for taking so long and not doing anything the first time that I called them for the first phone line. But oh well.

Rob
Post 11 made on Sunday May 2, 2004 at 04:59
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Win98 = I never had an install be stable longer than 6 months.
Clean install of XP = a must.
XP = very memory hungry.

Scandisk can sometimes find problems with a drive (do a surface scan, even though that will take a long time), but to be perfectly honest I don't think it's ever been useful for any of MY hard drive failures (and after working with computers since '87 there have been a lot).

Even the much-advertised S.M.A.R.T. feature has NEVER detected a problem, even on drives slowly tearing themselves apart with minor head crashes...


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